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...Moscow, as an outspoken friend of the Soviet Union and a onetime husband of the widow of its U. S. Hero John Reed, Ambassador Bullitt quickly became the most favored of capitalist envoys. On the understanding that Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff had promised President Roosevelt that Russia would buy great quantities of U. S. goods in return for recognition, Ambassador Bullitt made plans for a $1,200,000 Embassy, which Congress on the same understanding had authorized, awaited the Red trade orders which would cement the U. S. and the U. S. S. R. in bonds of commercial...
...danger of James Fenimore Cooper's works as cinema material is that, without his sombre prose (admired by Maxim Gorki and imitated by Joseph Conrad) they generally boil down into an antique kind of penny-dreadful. Scenarists Philip Dunne, John Balderston, Paul Perez, and Daniel Moore worked in shifts for more than a year to keep this from happening to The Lasf of the Mohicans. Net result is an intelligent and exciting version of a story, which, properly loaded with physical action, keeps the imprint of literature...
Hardly had Nominee Alf Landon's acceptance speech been broadcast (TIME, Aug. 3) than Franklin Roosevelt's ace political pressagent, Charles Michelson, began to plan to put this old political maxim into effect. For the occasion he arranged an hour's nation-wide radio hookup. For the job of demolishing Republican Landon he shrewdly picked six of the President's official inferiors and the Governor's official equals-six Democratic Governors, from six States geographically selected to enfilade Kansas from assorted distances and directions...
...Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, Soviet spokesman at Montreux, was 60 years old last week. Because in Bolshevik theory a Foreign Commissar is a most unimportant character, not to be compared with such weighty men as Defense Commissar Voroshilov or Commissar of Transportation Andreyev, photographs of rotund Commissar Litvinoff are practically non-existent in Russia. Millions of good Communists do not even know of his existence. As a birthday present Joseph Stalin decided last week that his Foreign Commissar had been neglected long enough. To him the Red dictator sent the rosette of the Order of Lenin, highest Soviet decoration...
...cynicism of the week much relished by the Montreux diplomats was a British proposal to be allowed to take through the Dardanelles 15,000 additional tons of war boats "for humanitarian purposes." Asked Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff: "What is the meaning of humanitarian...